Cable-reciprocating apparatus



H. McLAREN.-

CABLE RECIPROCATING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY f0. 1920.

1,395350. A Patented Nov. 1, 1921. A

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CABLE RECIPRQCATING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED MAY I0. 1920.

1,395,850. Patented Nov. 1,- 1921.

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INVENTOR HE RI Mn: HREN flf-ro WvE/S H. McLAREN. CABLE RECIPROCATING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED M AY10, 1920.

1,395,850. PatentedNov. 1,1921.

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HENRY MOLAREN, or Lnnns, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR, OEONE-HALF To 5. a H. MQLAREN,

LIMITED, {or LEE-13s, ENGLAND.

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To all whom it may concern: :I

Be it known that I, I'IENRY MoLARnN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Midland Engine Works, Leeds, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in or Gonnected with Cable-Reciprocating Apparatns, of which the following is a specification. o 1

This invention. relates to the system of plowing, or land-cultivation, in which hitherto two steam engines, one'at each headland, have been employed to pull' the plow, or the like, to and fro, by means of a rope, or cable, (which I will refer to as therope), the said engines being moved forward on the headlands as the plowing, or like operation, proceeds, the principal object of my" said invention being to provide an economical plowing, or cultivating, plant, comprising what I term motor-windlasses, these being windlasses provided with means by which they can be traversed from place to place, by internal combustion engines which can also be employed for traversing the plows, or other cultivators.

I'will, for the purposes of description, presume that this invention is to be 'employed in connection with the operation of plows, but it is to be understood that it can also be employed in connection with other similarly operating land-cultivating implements.

One of the disadvantages of the use of in ternal combustion engines in place of steam engines for the aforesaid system has hitherto been that the engines at the respective headlands run continuously, one doing useful work while the other runs light, ready to pull back the plow in its turn, and this light running consumes a considerable amount of fuel which is lost as far as useful work is concerned.

To obviate this loss, and for effecting economy in labor as well as in fuel, I pro vide means by which I utilize power from the engine for the time being active, and toward which the plow is being pulled, to start the engine of the motor-Windlass which has been stopped while the first-named motor-Windlass has been pulling; this power for starting being for instance conveniently transmitted from the one engine to the other by means of the hauling rope, which is being wound on the winding drum of the motor- Specification of Letters Patent.

'Application filed May 10, 1920. Serial No. 330,300.

Patented Nov. i, 1921,

win'dlasswhichfor the time being is pulling .(and which I may refer to as the active motor-Windlass), and the tail rope which for the time being is being unwound from the drum of the other, or inactive, motor-Windlass.

, The accompanying drawings illustrate an arrangement, or construction, in accordance with this invention constituting the best means with which I am acquainted'for carrying it into effect, but I do not limit myself to the precise details illustrated and described with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation and Flg. 2 is a plan of so much of an apparatus, or implement,=constitnting a motor-Windlass in accordance with my application, Serial No.

380,299. of the 10th May 1920', for Letters Patent, of the United States of America, as 1s necessary to illustrate the application of my present invention thereto. Fig. 3 is a section on the line w, m, Fig. 2.

The body, or carriage, of the apparatus is mounted upon traveling and steering wheels, and carries the winding drum A, and internal combustion engine E, which engine, by shifting the gear at F, can be caused to operate either the traveling wheels of the apparatus, or, (when the pinion f is put in gear with the drum A), the winding drum thereof or be put into a neutral position so as to operate neither of them.

The means for stoppin the winding action of the drum for pulling the plow over in one direction may be any suitable clutch such as a cone-clutch, shown at Pin Fig. 2.

These parts are fully described and illustrated in the specification of my said application, Serial No. 380,299 filed herewith, and 1the said parts require no further description iere.

The means, according to my present invention, by which the engine of the inactive motor-Windlass is put into gear with the drum for pulling the plow back from the opposite headland is shown in the example illustrated as consisting of a friction-wheel 1 which, when it is required to start the engine is pressed against the rim of the drum A, by means of a lever 20 centered, at 20 to some fixed part, such as the piec 20 afiiXed' to the cross tie piece 20 which drum A is being rotated by the paying out of the tail rope therefrom andthe consequent rotation of the wheel 1 rotates the shaft 2, one end of which is connected with the said lever 20 at 20 while its other end is connected by a swivel-joint inside the sprocket wheel 3 which is thus driven by the said shaft, the chain i Conveying the motion to the sprocket wheel 6, which is connected to the engine shaft by a claw-clutch, and causes the said engine to start up again. The chain 4 is shown as being kept taut by the sprocket wheels, or rollers, 5.

The attendant on the inactive motor-windlass, the engine of which is toiput into action as aforesaid, should put the starting clutch into gear and press the friction wheel 1 into contact with the flange of the rotating drum A from which the tail rope is being paid out before the plow reaches the pulling motorwindlass.

V The other parts shown in the accompanying drawings require no particular description because they constitute no part of the invention claimed under this present inven tion. Y 1

What I claim is I LThe combination, with cultivating apparatus having a pair of spaced motor-windlasses each driven by an independent motor,

of means actuated by the engine of one motor-Windlass for starting the engine of the @ther motor-Windlass.

QmThe combination, with cultivating apparatus having a pair of spaced motor-windlasses each driven by an independent motor, of means actuated by the engine of one motor-Windlass for starting the engine of the other motor-Windlass, said means comprising hauling and tail ropes engaging the windlasses driven by the respective engines.

3. Apparatus of the type described, combining a motor driven Windlass, a friction wheel, means for applying the periphery of the said wheel to thewindlass and means for conveying motion from said friction wheel to the Windlass-driving motor, substantially as hereinbefore described. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. HENRY MoLAREN. 1

lVitnesses RHODES K. CALVERT, HAROLD LISLE. 

